Terry Burns's Alone Season 9 Gear List: All 10 Items

Spoiler note: this covers how Season 9 ended and where Terry Burns finished.

Terry Burns is a commercial fisherman from Homer, Alaska who left a decade-long construction career to pursue a wilderness lifestyle. That fishing background would seem tailor-made for Season 9's river-heavy Labrador setting, but his run ended at 42 days when he was medically evacuated for a low BMI from excessive weight loss and a parasitic infection, finishing seventh. His full contestant profile has more on his background.

Seventh place put him just behind sixth-place Tom Garstang's 43 days, on the same stretch of Big River in northern Labrador where several contestants ultimately struggled with calorie intake over the season's cold, wet stretch.

The full list

Item	Brand/model	Notes
Axe	Not recorded	Shelter building and firewood
Sleeping bag	Not recorded	Insulation for the boreal cold
Bow and arrows	Not recorded	Hunting
Fishing line and hooks	Not recorded	His professional strength, protein source
Ferro rod	Not recorded	Fire starting
Paracord	Not recorded	Shelter lashing and utility cordage
2-quart pot	Not recorded	Cooking and water
Trapping wire	Not recorded	Small-game snares
Multitool	Not recorded	General repair
Crosscut saw	Not recorded	Heavier timber processing than a folding saw

No brand or model is publicly recorded for any of Burns's ten items. His choice of a crosscut saw over the folding saws more common elsewhere in the cast suggests a preference for durability on larger timber, consistent with someone used to working with heavy commercial fishing and construction equipment. Otherwise his list follows the same balanced pattern as most of his castmates: axe and saw for shelter and fire, bow, fishing line, and trapping wire for three food-gathering methods. You can compare his choices to the rest of the field on the saw, fishing line and hooks, and trapping wire pages.

What the list says about his run

A parasitic infection combined with excessive weight loss is one of the harsher ways a run can end, and it is not something a ten-item gear list can fully prevent. Burns's fishing background likely made his fishing line and hooks especially effective early on, but a parasite picked up from contaminated water or undercooked food can undermine even a well-executed food strategy regardless of professional experience. His crosscut saw suggests he prioritized shelter durability, a reasonable call for a cold, wet location, even though it came at some cost to the lighter, faster tools other contestants favored.

Season 9 in context

Burns's 42 days puts him in the lower half of Season 9's placement order, just ahead of the two contestants who tapped out inside the first three weeks. For the complete comparison of what every recorded contestant that season carried, our Season 9 gear roundup has the full breakdown, and alone-rules covers the ten-item cap every contestant, Burns included, worked within.

Season 9 is one of the better-documented seasons in the franchise; every one of its ten contestants has a fully sourced gear list, which is not true across the show's wider history. Only 101 of 187 total contestants across all 19 recorded seasons and spinoffs have a gear list on record at all, so a complete, side-by-side comparison like this one is only possible for a little over half of everyone who has ever done the show.